The Monkey Wrench Gang Summary

The Monkey Wench Gang, by Edward Abbey, is a novel that follows four characters through their adventures as they protest the destruction of the southwestern United States. Their adventures help all of them to discover who they really are and what they truly want in life.

On the surface, The Monkey Wrench Gang is a novel about four characters and their fight to protest the industrialization and destruction of the southwestern...

The Monkey Wrench Gang Study Guide

Edward Abbey Biographies (2)

Edward Abbey's nickname might just as well have been "the Monkey Wrench" instead of "Cactus Ed." Abbey breathed new life into the Luddites' notorious sabotage of technology--their tossing wrenches int...
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Edward Abbey was one of the most important and most explicitly political American nature writers of the second half of the twentieth century. He, however, disliked the phrase "nature writing"; he pref...
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Essays & Analysis (2)

Are terrorism, vandalism, and general destruction, justifiable if it's against the machines that are destroying the beauty of a defenseless nature? If asked, Edward Abbey, author of The Monkey Wrench...
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